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Updated Thursday 22 January, 8.01pm
Friday 23 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, 2:22 – A Ghost Story, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Mission Theatre, Next Stage in Shakespeare in Love, and Sat, 7.30.
Forum, Perfectly George, with Rob Lamberti as George Michael.
Komedia, The Skids, The Absolute Game Tour.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Bond Live, The Music of 007, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Frantic Assembly in Lost Atoms, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.3o: Old Vic, Weston Studio, Criptic Arts: The Acts, four new plays by disabled theatremakers, and Sat, 8pm.
Tobacco Factory, Living Spit in Beauty and the Beast, and Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Spitz & Co in The Spy Who Loved Me Tender, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
St George’s, Afel Bocoum, Malian guitarist, with his band, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Temple of Shibboleth in Days of the Week, art-rock five-piece sisterhood, 8pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Darren Walsh, Do You Like Puns? comedy.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Sweet and Sour, tribute to Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, John Kirkpatrick, folk, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, Film Crew, The Ballad of Wallis Island.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Production Garden in Parody of the Rings, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Barnfield Theatre, Clyst Vale Community College in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jnr, and Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
Cygnet Theatre, The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Hamlet, NT screening, 7pm.
Cheese and Grain, Luke Combs UK, and Sat.
HONITON, Beehive, The Roses, film, 2 and 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Bowie Fashion, tribute, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Nine Below Zero and Dr Feelgood, rhythm and blues, 8pm.
MERE, Lecture Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
PIDDLETRENTHIDE, Village Hall, Danny Mellor in Undermined, solo play, 7.30. AR
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Matilda, the Musical, to 7 Feb: Drum Studio, Tamaritans Theatre in 1984, and Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Andrew White, Rhinestone Comedian, 8pm: Cinema, Hamnet, and Sat, and 27 to 29 Jan various times.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Russell Hicks, This Time It’s Personal, American comedian, 8pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Alice in Wonderland – A Pantomime, to Sun, and 29 – 31 Jan, various times.
Various venues, Festival of Baroque, recitals, talks, films, dance etc, to Sun.
St Peter’s Church, Festival of Baroque, Eden Baroque, All the World’s a Stage, music inspired by Shakespeare and others, 2pm.
Arts Centre, Festival of Baroque, Troubled Times – Shaftesbury in the Civil War, talk by re-enactor Peter Wood, 4pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Here and Now – the STEPS musical, and Sat.
MAST, SOS in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Sat.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Rum Ragged, folk quartet from Newfoundland, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Hamnet, film, and Sat, and Mon-Thurs, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Beautiful Crazy, The Luke Combs Collection, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, James Phelan, The Man Who Was Magic, comedy magic, 7.30.
THEALE, Village Hall, Mr Punch’s Folk Club, open session, 8pm.
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, One Night in Dublin, Dubliners tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Eddie Cochran Story, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Yeovil Amateur Pantomime Society in The Wizard of Oz, 7.15, and Sat 1.30 and 6.30pm.
Swan Theatre, Swan Festival Pt 2, celebrating 50 years of live drama at the Swan, The Klima Trio, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Turina, 7.45.
Saturday 24 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, The Production Garden in The Parody of the Rings, 2.30 and 7.30.
Forum, Emilio Santoro as Elvis.
Chapel Arts, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddy, with Spencer J and the Copy-Cat Crickets.
Rondo, Chloe Petts, Big Naturals, comedy, 7.30.
Komedia, Nine Below Zero and Dr Feelgood, r’n’b, 1pm: Krater Comedy Club, 8pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion Dance, Open Doors, workshops and participation, from 10am. Performance 6pm.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Glenn Moore in Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some More?, comedy, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Signs of Life, film, and Q and A with Jospeh and Elliot Millson, 7.30.
Electric Palace, The Choral, film, 2pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Grace Petrie, This Is No Time to Panic, comedy, 3.30 and 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Stand up for the Weekend, with Tom Ward, Michael Odewale and Clint Edwards.
Redgrave Theatre, Ria Lina in Riabellion, comedy, 8pm.
Alma Tavern, Cotham Theatre Co in Sky Young’s Portraits of Ruin, 8pm and Sun, 5.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, It’s a Beautiful Noise, tribute to Neil Diamond, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Marcus Brigstocke, Vitruvian Mango, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Masquerade – A Tribute to The Carpenters, 7.30.
EXETER, Corn Exchange, The Dazzling Diamonds, drag show.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Blue Moon, 2025 film, 7.30.
LYME REGIS,Marine Theatre, Burns Night with music, dancing and food, 7pm.
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Destination Dance, regional dance companies’ showcase, 9am and 1.10pm: Cinema, The Pirates in An Adventure with Scientists, 11.30am.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, A Tribute to the Carpenters with Sally Creedon, 7.30.
City Hall, Disco Inferno, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Grosvenor Arms Assembly Room, Festival of Baroque, Salisbury Chamber Ensemble, baroque music from the courts of Europe, 11am: Early Bird, From the Pleasure Garden, baroque and early folk music with birdsong, 2pm.
Town Hall, Festival of Baroque, Dance the Baroque Way with Penny-Jane Swift and Steps in Time, dance demonstration, 4pm.
STUDLAND, Village Hall, Sarah Mcquaid, singer songwriter, 7.30. AR
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Dos Amigos, founding members of Los Pacaminos, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Andy Panayi, Bill Mudge and Andy Chapman, jazz, 7.30.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, The Old Oak, film, 7.30.
WEST STAFFORD, Village Hall, Danny Mellor in Undermined, solo play, 7.30. AR
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Greatest Showman, film, singalong, 11am.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The ELO Experience.
Sunday 25 January
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, An Evening with Sir David Jason, 7.15.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, 1920 film with live score, 3pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Chloe Petts, Big Naturals, comedy, 7.30.
Beacon, Lantern, Bearpit, Burns Night Ceilidh, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Joe Thomas, Talking All Things The In-Betweeners.
Redgrave Theatre, Ed Winters, Earthling Ed: The Journey to Veganism, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The History of Rock, 7.30.
EXETER, Phoenix, Ruach, Klezmer ceilidh, 2pm.
LYME REGIS,Marine Theatre, Hedera, Bristol-based female folk instrumentalists, 8pm.
MILBORNE ST ANDREW, Village Hall, Sarah Mcquaid, singer songwriter, 7.30. AR
POOLE, Lighthouse, Holocaust Memorial Day, from 2pm: Big Sing January, 4pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Grosvenor Arms Assembly Room, Festival of Baroque, Good Againe, with Sarah Small, viola da gamba, 11.30am.
St Peter’s Church, Festival of Baroque, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, cond David Gostick, 3pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, BSO cond Richard Balcombe, It’s a Living Thing, The music of Jeff Lynne’s ELO, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Afel Bocoum and band, Maliian and Sahara Desert blues, 8pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Taylor Fever, 2 and 6pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Sing, animated film, 10am: Queen of the Night, Whitney Houston tribute, 7.30.
Monday 26 January
BRISTOL, Beacon, Trinity Academy Bristol, music and dance showcase, 5pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, film, 1pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Resonant Activism, new political band, FREE, 1pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Nuremberg, film, 11am.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Goodbye June, film, and Tues/Thurs, 7.30, Thurs mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Wicked: For Good, film, to Wed 7pm, and Tues 11am, 2.30: Wed 3pm.
Tuesday 27 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Sheridan’s The Rivals with Patricia Hodge and Robert Bathurst, 250th anniversary production, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30: Ustinov Studio, Mark Kitto in Chinese Boxing, to Thurs, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, to Sat, 7.30.
Tobacco Factory, Adam Kammerling in Seder, spoken world and physical theatre, and Wed.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, PGS in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, to Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Shawshank Redemption, to Sat, 7.45, Wed/Sat mats 2.3: Cinema, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7pm.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Omid Djalili in Namaste, comedy, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, film, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Miss Saigon, to 7 Feb.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Talon – The Best of the Eagles, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral, Cathedral School woodwind and strings, promenade concert, 7.30.
Wednesday 28 January
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
BATH, Theatre Royal, China Running Dog, talk by actor and author Mark Kitto, noon.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Shen Yun, 5,000 years of Chinese Culture, to Sun, various times.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Becoming Led Zeppelin, film.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Omid Djalili, Namaste, comedy, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Martyn Joseph, folk, 8pm.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, The Project People in Smalltown Boy, new play by Brenda Callis, about grief and growing up queer, to Sat, various times.
Alma Tavern, Dead Air by Alistair Ray and Mat Troy, and Thurs, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War, documentary film, 11am and 7.30pm.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Corn Exchange, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan, Lions and Tigers and Bears.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Sunwook Kim, Elisabeth Brauss, piano, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Simon Russell Beale and Lucy Parham, Reverie, Portrait of Debussy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders.
Thursday 29 January
BATH, Rondo, Alfie Moore, Fair Cop Live, warm-up show, comedy, 8pm.
Komedia, Blue Ray and Love is Loud.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth Collegiate School in Peter Pan, The Classic Broadway Production, to Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, MADE Community Youth Theatre in Curtain Call to Credits, and Fri, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Golden Spurtle, film, 7.30.
Electric Palace, Nuremberg, film, 2pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Amiri Harewood, piano, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Ades, etc, 1pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Anna Hale, Control Freak, comedy, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, QOW Trio, jazz.
Folk House, Common Ground, folk, 7pm.
BRUTON, At the Chapel, Nick Todhunter, The Epic History of Portrait Painting, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Dazzling Diamonds, comedy drag, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Lollipop, film, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Rank, solo play by Dan Gaisford, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, Country by Candlelight.
University Great Hall, BSO, cond Sunwook Kim, Elisabeth Brauss, piano, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mozart, 7.30.
Northcott Theatre, Footlights in Anything Goes, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Cygnet Theatre, Artemis Storytelling, Queen of Between.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Airbourne, Australian hard rock.
Memorial Theatre, Gordon Buchanan, Lions, Tigers and Bears, 7.30.
HONITON, Beehive, Wicked: For Good, film, 2 and 7.30.
LYME REGIS,Marine Theatre, Wicked; For Good, film, 7.15.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Budapest Cafe Orchestra, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Armonico Consort, dir Christopher Monks, Handel’s Fireworks, inc Zadok the Priest, Te Deum and Royal Fireworks Music, 7.30: The Jane Austen Fan Club, comedy, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, The Magic of Motown, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Solve-Along-a-Murder-She-Wrote, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Sherlock Holmes: The Hunt for Moriaty, to Sat.
Turner Sims, Allan Clayton, tenor, Paul Lewis, piano, Schubert’s Winterreise, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, Exchange, Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes in Cabaret with Balls, 7.30. AR
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Fifth Step, NT Screening, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Shape of You, The Music of Ed Sheeran, 7.30.
Friday 30 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Merlin Projects in Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Chapel Arts, Jim Moray, folk.
Rondo, Boogie Nachts Theatre in Rishikesh, set in Greenham Common CND camp, and Sat, 7.30.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury,Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, The Fast Show 30th anniversary tour.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Angela Hewitt, piano.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Rank, solo play.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Horrible Histories – The Concert, 6.30 and Sat 10.30am and 2.30pm: Lantern, Le Vent du Nord, folk, 8pm.
Tobacco Factory, Tracey Collins in Audrey Heartburn: Bingo at Tiffany’s, music and comedy, and Sat.
Wardrobe Theatre, Bebe Cave in Christbride, comedy, and Sat, 7.30.
St George’s, Paul Lewis, piano, Mozart Piano Sonatas, Poulenc, Debussy, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Across the Square by Non Vaughan-O’Hagan, and Sat, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Jive Talkin’, BeeGees tribute.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Men Behaving Badly: The Play, to 7 March.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Luke Wright, Later Life Letter, performance poetry, 7.30.
DRIMPTON, Village Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30. AR
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Cathedral, The Music of Pink Floyd by Candlelight.
Corn Exchange, Comedy Club, acts TBA
Phoenix, Au Pairs, post-punk band.
FROME, Tree House, Cavus Torabi, British-Iranian multi instrumentalist and DJ.
HONITON, Beehive, Strange but True Crime, with forensic scientist Jennifer Rees, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Upton, McIntosh and Wilson, folk country and blues trio, 8.
NORTH PETHERTON, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Studio Jazz, Daniel Casimir, bass, and his band, 7.45.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, The Roses. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Judi Love, All About the Love, comedy, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Barnstormers Comedy with David Ward, Stephanie Laing, Pierre Hollins and Erich McElroy, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Steve Knightley, folk, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond bio pic, and Sat and Mon-Thurs, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Phil Wang and guests, comedy, 6 and 8.30pm.
WESTBURY SUB MENDIP, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH,Pavilion, The Take That Experience, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The King’s Voice, Gordon Hendricks as Elvis.
YEOVIL, Westlands, An Evening with Arsenal legends Merson, Smith and Nicholas, 7.30.
Saturday 31 January
BATH, Chapel Arts, The Connolly Hayes Band, blues.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BRIDGWATER, Mingle Cafe, Scarlett Smith in Any Objections, harpist and comedian, 7pm. TA
McMillan Theatre, Muses in One Night Only at the Muse-icals!, 8pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Amadeus, 1984 film, 5pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Nearly Dan, the spirit and sound of Steely Dan, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse), extravganza, 2pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Stand Up for the Weekend, with Robin Morgan, Joe Sutherland, Tom Toal.
CERNE ABBAS, Village Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Sexbomb, celebrating the music of Sir Tom Jones, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Tom Rosenthal, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, James Phelan, The Man Who Was Magic, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, The Music of Ed Sheeran by Candlelight.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Retro Electro, tribute to the 80s.
Tree House, Bruce Juice, The Springsteen Experience.
HONITON, Beehive, Zeffe Klezmer Band, 7.30.
HULLAVINGTON, Village Hall, Old Baby Mackerel, bluegrass, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Fabio and Grooverider, A history of Drum and Bass, 7pm.
MARTOCK, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Theatre for Life in Bringing the Outside In, 7.30, and Sun 2pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Simon and Garfunkel Story, 7.30: Rank, solo play with Dan Gaisford, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Crooners, with the Mini Big Band, comedy and music, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Le Vent du Nord, folk, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Holmes and Watson, The Curious Case of the Masked Magician, magic show with Peter Clifford and The Great Baldini, 2pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Up-Beat Beatles, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Mark Nelson, Liquid Gold, Scottish comedian, 8pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, A Night to Remember Motown Show, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Nine Below Zero and Dr Feelgood, R’n’B, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Dire Streets, tribute, 7.30.